Friday

Tu Fu and the Spring

A Spring View************Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;And spring comes green again to trees and grassesWhere petals have been shed like tearsAnd lonely birds have sung their grief....After the war-fires of three months,One message from home is worth a ton of gold....I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thinTo hold the hairpins any more.

TU-FU (712 - 770)

He was a Chinese Poet , he ranks together with his friend Li Tai-po as one of the greatest poets and social critics in Chinese history.

2 comments:

Thank you! I have not read him before. What a perfectly timed poem. And the photo is lovely. I notice our daffodils are wonderful this year - last year I thought I had lost them all - not even green leaves. This year some that I haven't seen in years came up. Works for me. Spring is always such a beautiful surprise!